mgmt: This is: mgmt!

Community:

Come join us on IRC in #mgmtconfig on Freenode! You may like the #mgmtconfig hashtag if you're on Twitter.

Questions:

Please join the #mgmtconfig IRC community! If you have a well phrased question that might benefit others, consider asking it by sending a patch to the documentation FAQ section. I'll merge your question, and a patch with the answer!

Quick start:

Either get the golang dependencies on your own, or run make deps if you're comfortable with how we install them.
Run make build to get a freshly built mgmt binary.
Run cd $(mktemp --tmpdir -d tmp.XXX) && etcd to get etcd running. The mgmt software will do this automatically for you in the future.
Run time ./mgmt run --file examples/graph0.yaml --converged-timeout=1 to try out a very simple example!
To run continuously in the default mode of operation, omit the --converged-timeout option.
Have fun hacking on our future technology!

Examples:

Please look in the examples/ folder for more examples!

Documentation:

Please see: DOCUMENTATION.md or PDF.

Roadmap:

Please see: TODO.md for a list of upcoming work and TODO items. Please get involved by working on one of these items or by suggesting something else! Feel free to grab one of the straightforward #mgmtlove issues if you're a first time contributor to the project or if you're unsure about what to hack on!

Bugs:

Please set the DEBUG constant in main.go to true, and post the logs when you report the issue. Bonus points if you provide a shell or OMV reproducible test case. Feel free to read my article on debugging golang programs.

Dependencies:

golang 1.4 or higher (required, available in most distros)

golang libraries (required, available with go get)

  go get github.com/coreos/etcd/client
  go get gopkg.in/yaml.v2
  go get gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1
  go get github.com/codegangsta/cli
  go get github.com/coreos/go-systemd/dbus
  go get github.com/coreos/go-systemd/util

stringer (required for building), available as a package on some platforms, otherwise via go get
```
  go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer
```
pandoc (optional, for building a pdf of the documentation)
graphviz (optional, for building a visual representation of the graph)

Patches:

We'd love to have your patches! Please send them by email, or as a pull request.

On the web:

Introductory blog post: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/next-generation-configuration-mgmt/
Introductory recording from DevConf.cz 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVhpPF0j-iE&html5=1
Introductory recording from CfgMgmtCamp.eu 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeooSiIRnA&html5=1
Julian Dunn at CfgMgmtCamp.eu 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfF9IATUask&t=1949&html5=1
Walter Heck at CfgMgmtCamp.eu 2016: http://www.slideshare.net/olindata/configuration-management-time-for-a-4th-generation/3
Marco Marongiu on mgmt: http://syslog.me/2016/02/15/leap-or-die/
Felix Frank on puppet to mgmt "transpiling" https://ffrank.github.io/features/2016/02/18/from-catalog-to-mgmt/

Happy hacking!

mbohun/mgmt